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Pages Load Faster With Dark, and Focus Stays Idle

Focus v1.0.5 Pending review

Pages load faster with the Dark theme on, and Focus does much less work while a page loads, then stays idle after it has loaded. A site's own dark theme is now found in more cases and used instead of converting the page, so sites like Wikipedia load at close to normal speed and look the way the site designed its dark theme. Your settings carry over, and there are no new permissions.

  • Pages load faster with the Dark theme, and Focus stays idle after a page loads.
  • A site's own dark theme is found in more cases and used instead of converting the page.
  • Embedded boxes like cookie consent dialogs turn dark, and YouTube buttons read again.

Fixes & Other Changes

  • With the Dark theme on, pages load faster because Focus does much less work while a page loads.
  • Scrolling and typing no longer slow on some pages because Focus stays idle after a page has loaded instead of keeping work going in the background.
  • Sites like Wikipedia load at close to normal speed and look the way the site designed its dark theme, because Focus finds a site’s own dark theme in more cases and uses it instead of converting the page.
  • Embedded boxes inside a page, such as cookie consent dialogs, now turn dark instead of staying white.
  • On YouTube, the consent and Subscribe buttons are readable again in Dark and Light.
  • In Firefox, styles that a page adds after it has loaded are now turned dark too, and heavy pages load faster with Dark on.
  • No new permissions.